Division 5 For the purposes of heading 8534, ‘printed circuits’ are circuits obtained by forming on an insulating base, by any printing process (for example, embossing, plating-up, etching) or by the ‘film circuit’ technique, conductor elements, contacts or other printed components (for example, inductances, resistors, capacitors) alone or interconnected according to a pre-established pattern, other than elements which can produce, rectify, modulate or amplify an electrical signal (for example, semiconductor elements).

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The expression ‘printed circuits’ does not cover circuits combined with elements other than those obtained during the printing process, nor does it cover individual, discrete resistors, capacitors or inductances. Printed circuits may, however, be fitted with non-printed connecting elements.

Thin- or thick-film circuits comprising passive and active elements obtained during the same technological process are to be classified in heading 8542.

Notes on Chapter 85

Footnotes

f1: Customs duty autonomously suspended, until 31 December 2010, for black-and-white or other monochrome monitors, using liquid crystal display technology, equipped with either a digital-visual-interface (DVI) or a video-graphics-array (VGA) connector or both, with a diagonal measurement of the screen not exceeding 77,50 cm (i.e. 30,5 inches), with an aspect ratio of 1:1, 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10, with a pixel resolution exceeding 1,92 megapixels, and with a dot pitch not exceeding 0,3 mm (TARIC code 8528 59 10 10).
f2: Customs duty autonomously suspended, until 31 December 2010, for colour monitors using liquid crystal display technology, with a diagonal measurement of the screen not exceeding 55,9 cm (i.e. 22 inches), with an aspect ratio of 1:1, 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10 (TARIC code 8528 59 90 40).
f3: Autonomous rate of duty: Free.